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Jesus Goes To Jerusalem For a Feast, And Heals a Man On The Sabbath

After these things there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos[a]. In these porticos, a multitude of the ones being sick were lying-down— blind ones, lame ones, withered ones.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 That is, covered colonnades where people gathered.

The Healing at the Pool

Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate(A) a pool, which in Aramaic(B) is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.

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Footnotes

  1. John 5:2 Some manuscripts Bethzatha; other manuscripts Bethsaida